Statewise COVID cases and deaths in India

Dec

Challenges Nurses Face in Maharashtra COVID-19 epidemic

Overwork, safety risk, pay cuts and pressure from management are a few of the challenges nurses in Maharashtra faced during the COVID-19 epidemic, according to rapid assessment conducted by SATHI...

Dec

Back to Millets in the wake of Covid-19

Hard-hit by lockdown, women farmworkers gained food security by growing millets on small patches of land they had given up as barren.

Nov

$300 can help 7 people get back to work

Small Businesses Count on You We hope this finds you and your family well. As local shops observe Small Business Saturday our heart goes out to the millions of small businesspeople, self-employed and...

Nov

Restarting Small Business in Rural Tamil Nadu

With grants averaging Rs. 3000 per person, over 1700 small scale-vendors impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic have restarted their work and are earning income of Rs. 200 per day. Quarantine...

Oct

Hospital helpdesks save lives in pandemic times

When skies are gray, we remember the words of Maya Angelou, who urged us to “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” Archana Dengale and Anil Supe are beautiful...

Jun

Farm & Food Security: Impact of Covid on rural livelihood

Join AID volunteers to hear from Seema Kulkarni and Sridhar Radhakrishnan about farm and food security in India in the times of Covid-19. They will talk about the impact of...

Jun

Unlocking the Crisis: Rural Women, Work and Hunger

Women farmers in 14 districts of the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra talked about the impact of the pandemic on their lives and livelihoods with the Mahila Kisan Adhikar...

Jun

AID-India Rehabilitating Livelihoods

Latest reports of AID-India’s work (supported by AID) from Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh In the last few weeks, our Aid India field teams have provided many...

May

Farm & Food Security: Impact of Covid & Climate Change

Join AID volunteers to hear from Divya Veluguri and Kiran Vissa about farm and food security in India in the times of Covid-19 and climate change. Register at go.umd.edu/farming-covid When...

May

News article on AID’s partner: Lockdown Warrior Motiur

This is a translation of a Bengali news article on one of AID’s partners and his work during the COVID-19 lockdown. Lockdown Warrior Motiur His usual habit is to be...

May

Farm & Food Security: Impact of Covid & Climate Change

Join AID volunteers to hear from Divya Veluguri and Kiran Vissa about farm and food security in India in the times of Covid-19 and climate change. Register at go.umd.edu/farming-covid When...

May

Holistic response to COVID-19: Update from SOCHARA

Here is an update on the work of SOCHARA, our grassroots partner in Karnataka. Initial response: As part of its primary response, SOCHARA developed a science bulletin to give a...

May

1 Lakh people in Mumbai screened using PPE with your support

We are supporting Bombay Sarvodaya Friendship Center, who have been instrumental in distributing food to daily wage and migrant workers, slumdwellers, and PPE to health care workers in the city...

May

Webinar on domestic and sexual abuse during Covid times | May 17

Join us for a webinar THIS Sunday, May 17th on Combating Domestic & Sexual abuse during COVID times, with two of our partners Tara Ahluwalia & Priti Jha – advocates...

May

Standing with migrant workers in Haryana

Aman Ki Pahal, our partner in Haryana, has been working to provide relief to people affected by the Covid-19 lockdown. Previous updates on their work can be found here. Update –...

May

Indian Ocean Concert for COVID Relief | May 16

Thanks so much Indian Ocean and Vilas Nayak for the uplifting concert in these challenging times. You can watch the recording of the concert on facebook. To make a donation...

May

Covid relief by Centre for Development in Ahmedabad

Centre for Development (CfD), our partner in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, has been at the forefront of ensuring that Covid relief efforts reach the last mile. Their efforts are a great example...

May

Health Rights for All | Webinar on May 10

Register to join the Zoom webinar: ter.ps/healthcov19 on Right to Health and what it means in COVID times – a discussion with Doctors & Health champions who attend to diverse demographics...

May

Fundraising calls with partners on May 9

AID has been facilitating online calls with partners at the front lines of Covid-19 relief, to connect them to volunteers and donors across the world. This weekend, we have a...

May

Support for waste pickers in Delhi

Informal waste pickers and recyclers are critical to waste management in India. In Delhi, guided by Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, these workers are organizing to ensure their security...

May

Webinar on West Bengal Covid Relief effort | May 9

AID Responds to COVID crisis in Bengal AID–US chapters are hosting a webinar on Saturday, 9th May at 1 pm EDT with Sankar Halder from “Mukti”, an NGO working at the grassroots of Sundarbans, and Partha Dey...

May

Personal Protective Equipment Distribution updates

Around the world personal protective equipments are in short supply. AID has been partnering with grassroots partners across India to distribute personal protective equipments to healthcare workers, police, and communities...

May

32 Days and Counting: SWAN Report on Migrant Workers in Lockdown

May 1 2020: SWAN releases its new report “32 Days and Counting: COVID-19 Lockdown, Migrant Workers, and the Inadequacy of Welfare Measures in India.” This report documents the experiences of...

May

Support for migrant and daily wage workers in Tejgadh

Our partner Bhasha Research and Publication Centre has been at the forefront of providing distributing Covid-19 relief items to vulnerable people, through their Adivasi Academy in Tejgadh in the...

May

Covid-19 updates from Rachana Society in Pune

Taking the vow to do everything possible Rachana Society for Rural Reconstruction is a community project based in Pune district, Maharashtra. Formed in 1989, Rachana has been working in...

Apr

Workers’ Rights and the Covid-19 crisis | Webinar on May 3

Surviving lockdown, reaching home, avoiding the virus. On top of these pressing concerns, hundreds of millions of Indians face an intensifying struggle for livelihoods in the time of the...

Apr

Hunger and COVID-19 – India must ensure food and health for all

April 30, 2020 India has enforced a 40-day lockdown to halt the spread of COVID-19, lauded as one of the strictest state measures in the world. 1008 virus-caused deaths have...

Apr

Reaching the unreached: TRU in Gujarat

Trust for Reaching the Unreached or TRU is one of our partners in Gujarat, that works to improve health in rural Gujarat through community based interventions. More about TRU here....

Apr

Caste, gender, and communal identity and the COVID-19 crisis

How has India’s response to COVID-19 impacted discrimination based on religion, caste and gender identity? Join‌ ‌us‌ ‌to‌ ‌hear‌ ‌from‌ ‌AID‌ ‌partners‌ ‌working‌ ‌on‌ ‌the‌ ‌frontlines,‌ ‌encountering‌ ‌and‌ ‌standing‌ ‌up‌...

Apr

Dire situation in the brick kilns of Kanpur

Among the hardest hit in the lockdown has been India’s massive informal economy, which employs about 424 million Indians, some 90% of the workforce, according to data from the country’s...

Statewise COVID-19 spread in India

Challenges Nurses Face in Maharashtra COVID-19 epidemic

Back to Millets in the wake of Covid-19

$300 can help 7 people get back to work

Restarting Small Business in Rural Tamil Nadu

Hospital helpdesks save lives in pandemic times

Farm & Food Security: Impact of Covid on rural livelihood

Unlocking the Crisis: Rural Women, Work and Hunger

AID-India Rehabilitating Livelihoods

Farm & Food Security: Impact of Covid & Climate Change

News article on AID’s partner: Lockdown Warrior Motiur

Farm & Food Security: Impact of Covid & Climate Change

Holistic response to COVID-19: Update from SOCHARA

1 Lakh people in Mumbai screened using PPE with your support

Webinar on domestic and sexual abuse during Covid times | May 17

Standing with migrant workers in Haryana

Indian Ocean Concert for COVID Relief | May 16

Covid relief by Centre for Development in Ahmedabad

Health Rights for All | Webinar on May 10

Fundraising calls with partners on May 9

Support for waste pickers in Delhi

Webinar on West Bengal Covid Relief effort | May 9

Personal Protective Equipment Distribution updates

32 Days and Counting: SWAN Report on Migrant Workers in Lockdown

Support for migrant and daily wage workers in Tejgadh

Covid-19 updates from Rachana Society in Pune

Workers’ Rights and the Covid-19 crisis | Webinar on May 3

Hunger and COVID-19 – India must ensure food and health for all

Reaching the unreached: TRU in Gujarat

Caste, gender, and communal identity and the COVID-19 crisis

Dire situation in the brick kilns of Kanpur

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